Great work and planing Greg. Not a DxO user, I can see it is simple to use from your examples. Stunning image of the King vulture along with black vultures. Was this image taken at Boca Tapada? Planning to go this year after the majestic King Vulture.
11:20 - using DxO PR2 I never experienced obvious exposure change, but for my Pentax camera it often shift white balance quite much. I need to pick neutral color from image, since original WB is wrong; even auto WB is wrong with DxO version of files. I edit in CaptureOne.
12:40 - I assume the underexposure comes from fact that DxO processed image are LINEAR, while original is not (Lightroom apply curce on files upon import). We know that digital files are linear and there is NO way to recover lost highlights, but Lightroom was created in era of CRT monitors and have image presented in such way a middle portion of exposure was OK on those monitors. Thus we have highlight recovery and shadow/black lifting feature, to compress image. Which is just legacy workflow today on modern screens with MUCH better dynamic range. As can be seen here on you example - thank you for giving such a perfect example here - the FEATHERS does not change exposure at all, only background gets darker. Now it is up to photographer to compress the image back to his liking (or displaying demands for print or else). That is because the new DxO file is linear 16-bit TIFF inside DNG and Lr does not apply curves on de-Bayer-ed files. If original file would be processed with DCRAW and imported into LR as 16-bit TIFF, it would look the same. The reason I have no such case is, I use CaptureOne which does not apply trickery to imported file (is younger than Lr by design). I hope I cleared the mystery with this one.:)
Excellent video but lacks from comparison to Topaz Denoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Photo Ai. You only provided half the picture. Plus I would like to see more than 1 image
Hi, Richard. In order to keep this video short I decided to focus only on PureRaw 3. I am working on a new video comparing it with Topaz and the new Lightroom Denoise AI :-)
Great video Greg! I'll be looking forward for the next videos you mentioned, specially the comparison with Topaz!
Thanks! I am working on a video comparing DxO, Topaz, and the new LR Denoise AI. It's been interesting taking a look at them :-)
Thanks for taking the time to share your insights, Greg!
My pleasure, Miles
Great video thanks! I use dxo also and I love it! Cheers from Chile, the land of Araucarias :) I love your Conguillío photo btw
Thanks, Bernardo. I really loved that area!
Great work and planing Greg. Not a DxO user, I can see it is simple to use from your examples. Stunning image of the King vulture along with black vultures. Was this image taken at Boca Tapada? Planning to go this year after the majestic King Vulture.
Hi, Carlos. Glad you enjoyed the video. Yes, the King Vulture photo was taken in that area :-)
Excellent video, I have dxo pure raw version 1 and this sounds like a worthwhile upgrade.
I think it is, Robert :-)
11:20 - using DxO PR2 I never experienced obvious exposure change, but for my Pentax camera it often shift white balance quite much. I need to pick neutral color from image, since original WB is wrong; even auto WB is wrong with DxO version of files. I edit in CaptureOne.
I have noticed WB shifts on occasion too...
12:40 - I assume the underexposure comes from fact that DxO processed image are LINEAR, while original is not (Lightroom apply curce on files upon import). We know that digital files are linear and there is NO way to recover lost highlights, but Lightroom was created in era of CRT monitors and have image presented in such way a middle portion of exposure was OK on those monitors. Thus we have highlight recovery and shadow/black lifting feature, to compress image. Which is just legacy workflow today on modern screens with MUCH better dynamic range.
As can be seen here on you example - thank you for giving such a perfect example here - the FEATHERS does not change exposure at all, only background gets darker. Now it is up to photographer to compress the image back to his liking (or displaying demands for print or else). That is because the new DxO file is linear 16-bit TIFF inside DNG and Lr does not apply curves on de-Bayer-ed files. If original file would be processed with DCRAW and imported into LR as 16-bit TIFF, it would look the same. The reason I have no such case is, I use CaptureOne which does not apply trickery to imported file (is younger than Lr by design).
I hope I cleared the mystery with this one.:)
Thanks so much for this explanation!
Excellent video but lacks from comparison to Topaz Denoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Photo Ai. You only provided half the picture. Plus I would like to see more than 1 image
Hi, Richard. In order to keep this video short I decided to focus only on PureRaw 3. I am working on a new video comparing it with Topaz and the new Lightroom Denoise AI :-)